KGB Bar

Rupert Wates is a native of London, England.  He has been a songwriter most of his life but has also written and published a fair amount of prose.  He moved to Paris in the year of 9/11, though doesn’t know if the two events were connected.  In Paris he wrote short stories, two novels and worked also as a journalist.  After five years in Paris he began to grow tired of long lunches and having met his wife, Stacey, they decided to come to the US, where audiences have the great advantage of speaking English.  He’s glad to be here and glad to be reading for DUCTS.

Diana Spechler is the author of the novel Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008). Her writing has appeared in Esquire, Nerve, Glimmer Train Stories, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she teaches for the Gotham Writers’ Workshop and is at work on her second novel.

Sarah Dohrmann is a prose writer living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  She recently returned from a Fulbright fellowship in Morocco, where she lived for fifteen months learning Arabic and working on her book of personal nonfiction (with a heavy strain of meta-fiction), currently called Point of Departure.  Sarah teaches creative writing in New York City public schools as a writer-in-residence with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, as well as co-produces and co-writes audio programs.  To read more of her work, check out her narrative blog “UND YOU VILL LIKE IT” at www.undyouvilllikeit.blogspot.com.